Pleased to have my work on the slave trade within pre-revolutionary Saint-Domingue featured alongside the brilliant Joyce Chaplin 🌻 Eric Herschthal Tessa Murphy and Stuart M. McManus in the latest issue of the WMQ. Dr. Julia Gaffield was a wonderful editor!

I don’t know much about Simon Harris TD, Ireland’s new prime minister, but given we’re both Harrises from south east Ireland (of which there are few), we must be related. Let’s hope he’s a good egg.

The only sensible thing to do with Trump's 'Gettysburg, Wow' speech in Pennsylvania was to make a one-minute documentary film of it. These are all his real words. I added some 'bing bongs' at the start. 'Never fight uphill, me boys! Never fight uphill.' #FunWithPhotoshop

Assistant Professor in the History of the Modern United States at Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin ⁦BrANCH⁩ jobs.ac.uk/job/DHC426/ass…

BRACE YOURSELVES: Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua by Paul Lovejoy and Nielson Bezerra, coming your way in January 2025 with UNC Press amazon.com/Mahommah-Gardo…

Is there a site or database where all the travelogues by visitors to the early United States are gathered in one place?

Pro-tip: it's ok to send a thank you note to someone who reviewed your book! (=if the review was done in good faith, even with critiques 😆). I've gained more than one pal this way (like the fab Gabriel I Green, Ph.D). When someone takes time to engage with your work in these times 🙌

Signed a contract for Oceans of Tears: The French Trade in Enslaved Africans (provisional title) with Cambridge University Press today. Coming your way at some point! Glad to be working again with dearest Cecelia Cancellaro #slaveryarchive

I am excited to share that I have signed a contract for my first book with Yale Univ Press, The Christianization of American Democracy: Religious Politics in the Age of Jackson [working title].

Goodreads is a tough crowd

It’s here Manisha Sinha

First view of the internal Brazilian slave trade to Rio de Janeiro, 1831-1887 on Slave Voyages Intra-American Slave Trade Database. Over 21,400 records of voyages, carrying more than 163,000 enslaved people.

New post! The RAI is looking to hire a Director of Academic Programmes. Details available here: rai.ox.ac.uk/jobs-vacancies

Friends in the Visit Washington, DC area, please come out to Ford's Education Ford's Theatre NPS on Feb. 2 for this program based on my Rowman & Littlefield and UNC Press books on #AbrahamLincoln and African Americans, featuring Howard University professors Denise J. Hart and Edna Greene Medford. Get your FREE tix…

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Our author copies of MY DAY WITH ABE LINCOLN arrived today! The girls have been waiting for this moment for a long time!

Like and repost this Tweet and follow me. On Jan. 19 we'll pick a follower who RTs this to send a signed copy to. #AbrahamLincoln …

Wut? 😮

Hi friends, what are your fave essays on media, the digital age, and/or mis/disinformation? Looking for shorter pieces I can assign my students.

This is why you should not title your book The Last Slave Ships. Turns out there were more, up to 1872. Maybe. Looking forward to Dr. Durkin's book. theguardian.com/world/2024/jan…

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There’s Harvard and Yale and then there’s little campuses in the woods that have annual squirrel hunts